No problem!

I updated it today but seems the same, no editor. Am I missing something?

When adding a new product, its still appears to be painfully tedious. Is there a way to use the editor instead of doing it all in the control panel?

Nope. The editor is for writing reviews.

It doesn't matter if you have a fancy editor or plain text, adding product after product will be tedious regardless. Import products at once with a single XML feed.

Bummer, then it is still of no use to me.

Creating a product for review the way you have it now is so slow. It takes forever to add information compared to being able to copy/paste. You have to put all the html in!

Having to write in all that html when a simple paste would get it done would make your product right on.

If I want to copy product info off the manufacturers website, how does an XML file work?

As an example: If I wanted to copy product info off this site, how would you do this?:

http://www.rolandus.com/products/pro...94&ParentId=19

When you develop a mod you know that while you can make it work for many, it's not going to be for everyone. Best of luck to you!

I'd get a feed from the manufacturer and adjust the XML format to match what the mod needs [or tell the author if something was missing]. This way when a product is changed or added I wouldn't have to worry about missing it, or go to the hassle of adding copy & pasting hundreds of products one at a time.

:down: too bad, you have a nice clean product here but is missing something major IMO.

Hi Ted, thanks for the updates. Just noticed on the Admin page, however, when trying to approve some reviews that there's only one page of 25 products listed without the option to move onto the next 25. Is it something I've missed or is it missing?

I've attached a shot of that screen if it helps.

Hi,

I have two problems which I hope you can help.

1) Productforums.php does not load when I click on the forum enabled for reviews. I have made the changes to forumdisplay.php shown in the install file. When I tried to paste the productforum URL into the forum link in the forum manager, I get the Browse Product & Reviews page but when I click on see all reviews I keep getting bumped back to the productforums page.

2) I cant delete product categories. I get "Review ID not specified" when clicking on yes during the confirmation stage.

Great mod by the way - much appreciated.

Sorry, didnt meant that in that way, of course my license is ok. Anyway i cant update, so could you please add this feature? I do not want to spend 120$ or more for the update.

Actually, as someone who's just imported about 500 products into his install, allow me to give you some of my lessons learned:

Through some pretty easy scripting in Excel (predefining the URL to point to the product), joining some fields together and some unique items specific to my install; I was able to import all of the items in about an hours worth of research work and about a minute of actual processing work.

Doing this manually, it was taking me anywhere between 60-90 seconds per item, and that was with a copy/paste of HTML formatted data. So I saved myself atleast a half hour of data entry (and my sanity), and I've got it set up where I can throw in thousands of products in the future in quite literally under 5 minutes.

Now, that's just me - and I was not happy to look at an XML import versus a csv import which I was comfortable with. I'm sold on this method now.

I think what your issue stems from is that you have WYSIWYG data and you don't know how to capture that data with it's HTML sourcing data intact. If we could figure that out, would you try the XML import?

That's the great thing about a user, it just needs to work for you and anything else you shouldn't use.

When you make a mod things get tricky as everyone has different needs so you start with what you feel will work for the most possible people and then watch feedback to see if you were wrong.

Anything more than a stylized list won't survive the WYSIWYG which would make editing impossible for some users. Thus there's a decision to be made and when we built this mod we decided to focus on imports over copy & paste [true speed] and open areas over bulky editors [true flexibility]. That's our line, but we know it's not going to fit everyone's needs.

Again, thanks for the feedback and best of luck with your forum!

I went to the site, did a view source and grabbed the following from ln 104-125

I'm sure there are lots of ways to do it with XML feeds and alike that the owner of the site may or may not be interested in giving you access to. But a rather lo-tek way to achieve some thing similar would be to get a program to scrape the entire site like HTTrack and then scour the results looking for all instances of the data between "<!-- features tab -->" and "<!-- /features -->".

Thanks so much for sharing this.

Developing something you get to decide where you want to draw the line and while I'm sure people would like other ways to add products, I really believe that an import is the only way to go. The manual entry page is really more about formatting or reviewing an entry here and there than adding.

No matter how you do it, copy & paste thinking just doesn't scale well.

My team processes something like 10 million products [not to this mod but to a system that the mod is based on] a night from a dozen vendors all of whom format and update differently so we've become pretty familiar with every option and while we debated offering csv/tab, XML is just safer when you're dealing with rich content and an infinite number of configurations.

If you have 4.0, you have "Free updates for this version" but I digress...

The mod is already build to parse data from 4.0.x as well as 4.1.x, it just doesn't display the editor. I can't justify development hours to support a very dated version of the software but you can switch to a editor-less format by hacking the template --

Edit template prodforums_review_create

1 - Remove the javascript function from the <form> tag

2 - Remove {vb:raw messagearea}

3 - Remove <script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_ajax_suggest.js?v={vb:raw vboptions.simpleversion}"></script>

4 - Add the following code and format to fit your style / width needs

We just figured you'd deal with the first 25 before any more :D

Ok, ok, that's a bug. We'll updated it soon.

productforums.php isn't used in that process. The hack changes forumdisplay.php so that when you view the forum through an existing link, the format is adjusted to show review data via the template prodforums_threadbit.

We'll add this to the next bug release.

Im @ 4.0.3

Where is the javascript code i have to remove?Thank you very much :) Will I have to do that again if I update the addon?

my reviews are still displayed in the same forum, in which the products are..

If the template is updated in a future version your custom edits will override it.

My apologies for the back to back releases but a few minor bugs have been discovered that seemed worth fixing. There are no security, data or critical bugs.

- fixes bug with admin not showing multiple page of reviews to edit / approve
- fixes bug with admin not allowing categories to be deleted
- fixes bug in prodforums_product_css with alignment of posts for some skins
- removes $ before manufacturer item descriptor

If you are upgrading from 1.2.1 simply install the new plugin file and upload admincp/productforums.php.

If you are upgrading from before 1.2.x update all files.

This upgrade will alter template prodforums_product_css if you have customized you can merge the template or simply add a </div> before the </li> tag.

Missing 2 key things:

- You can not upload image;
- You can not set a standard height for images;

How important is it that these two failures?

Ouch. Thanks for the feedback but calling parts of a free mod a failure is probably not the best way to win the [positive] attention of the author.

Image urls were used because we don't see most people creating products individually, it's simply not scalable to hand enter even just a hundred products. When you enter a url, you define the image and thus you define the height... browser forced resizing is not a solution. Still there's been enough demand for uploading so while I think it will take people down the wrong path, we added to the feature roadmap a few weeks back.

Hey, nicely explained. DEFIANTLY! The manufacturers do not provide RSS feeds for the information I need. I have to copy/paste it all. If I could enter in urls and the scripts would import everything I needed, including the images, that would be ideal. Is this possible? Please help if you can. I would appreciate this very much.

If I could see an example of what I need to write? I'm a copy past kind of guy.

when creating the product after viewing the post of the product it shows

as the content

why does it not show the full description ?

Take a look at post 457.

Is there a HOW TO guide showing setting up a sample product?

I installed this, created a new forum & created a product & assigned it to the new forum.

I don't see any of the 3 screen shots that you have provided!!

Did you enable the mod in that forum?

Did you enable the mod in the forum you are looking at?

Go into the forum you are posting the reviews:

ACP > Forums & MOderators > Forum Manager > Edit the forum

Find the option "Enable Product Review Forum Features?" and enable it.

How do i get it to look like this:

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/attachmen...7&d=1327272084

I don't want every forum, just the one with the reviews in to look like above.

That's not a forum view, it's the productforums.php index

Forums continue to look how they always looked although if you follow the install guide it explains how to modify the column rows to reflect ratings in addition to the normal data.

Ah, I think I get it.

I redirect that forum to http://www.xxxxxxxx.com/forum/productforums.php


That gives me the display but no products are cilckable.

Getting there!!

No, your forum remain a working forum but you enable the option for the mod in the forum settings as explained in the install file and main thread for the mod. Products and reviews will get posted as specially formatted threads / posts. If you want people to be able to search products, you add a link to the overview page [productforums.php] wherever you want.

What doesn't give you clickable links?

I'd redirected the forum to the reviews page, managed to get it sorted now.

Works a treat.

Only small issue is that I didn't have the black stars png's in the download. (i just renamed the green ones to black).

Thanks.

lars

thank you Larsveld, that sorted it, should of realised that option
but install instructions didnt mention this part